nigdy nad tym sie nie zastanawialam. quite interesujace. czy wszystkie znacza to samo? maybe... possibly 'quite' ma troche inne znaczenie. czy jest jakas regula ich stosowania? perhaps... perhaps... perhaps... :O

quite - całkiem, dość
maybe - być może
perhaps - być może
possibly - być może

z powyższego wynika, że pierwsze ma inne znaczenie niż pozostałe trzy, które są dość podobne

najprostrze użycie:

This website is quite good.

- Will you come?
- Possibly. (Perhaps. lub Maybe.)

perhaps

Making an opinion sound less definite
Most cybercrime involves traditional crimes, such as theft and fraud, being committed in new ways. Phishing is perhaps/possibly/probably the best-known example of this.
It seems/appears that the more personal data which organizations collect, the more opportunity there is for this data to be lost or stolen.
It seems clear that introducing national ID cards would do little to prevent identity theft.
It could be argued that the introduction of national ID cards might actually make identity theft easier.
 It is possible that/It may be that the only way to protect ourselves against DNA identity theft is to avoid the creation of national DNA databases.

Ello

Pod tymi linkami znajdziesz setki przykładów i bardzo dużo porównań, wskazówek i synonimów:
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/quite
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/maybe
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/perhaps
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/possibly

W razie jakichkolwiek wątpliwości śmiało pytaj :-)

Pozdrówka

"possibly" ja rozumie bardziej jako nasze "możliwe"